[skyguy79]

On the first day of college, the dean addressed the students, pointing out some of the rules: "The female dormitory will be out-of-bounds for all male students, and the male dormitory to the female students. Anybody caught breaking this rule will be fined $20 the first time. Anybody caught breaking this rule the second time will be fined $60. Being caught a third time will cost you $180. Are there any questions?" One student raised his hand and asked, "How much for a season pass?"

[Schaumburger]

LOL. At Loyola University of Chicago (run by the Jesuits) in the late
1970's/early 1980's, the rule was called parietals. You could not have a member of the opposite sex in your dorm room between 12:00 midnight and 10:00 a.m. Sunday through Thursday and between 2:00 am and 10:00 am on Fridays and Saturdays. The irony of this was that any behavior was tolerated before parietal hours started, but after parietal hours started it was forbidden. So those wishing to have a member of the opposite sex in their room after parietals just learned to be very quiet after a certain time. And for the students who lived in apartment style dorms where each apartmenet had their own private bathroom, this rule was pretty much ignored as it was pretty hard to enforce unless you were very obvious that you were breaking the parietal rule. Freshmen were not allowed to live in the apartment style dorms when I was at Loyola; you had to be a sophomore, junior or senior or a graduate student to live in the apartment dorms at Loyola.

I would love to know if parietals still exist in the dorms at Loyola in Chicago today.